Familiar and Forgiveness

<p>       <em>Familiar and Forgiveness</em> references forgiveness of self and others from losses mistakes misgivings and human errors in tones varying between humour and skepticism grief and redemption and honesty and absurdity. The first section <em>Familiar</em> is from the wry droll imaginative and sometimes melancholy point of view of my familiar or alter ego Cujo. The second section <em>Forgiveness </em>expresses my healing through interaction with natural elements: trees wind faeries sprites the Archangel Gabriel and Celtic cards. This part expresses a woman's transformation from brokenness to wholeness and her transformation from breakdown to breakthrough as well as environmental exhortations to heal our planet. <em>Familiar and Forgiveness </em>is replete with allusions to mystic traditions and contemplative wisdom and feminist spirituality.</p><p>           My work stylistically adheres to traditional verse forms (employing rhyme fixed stanza structures and metrical patterns). Yet it just as easily veers into the contemporary with meta-textual references to William Carlos Williams my ancestor the Welsh mystic Henry Vaughan the Welsh goddess Cerridwen pagan deities Wicca and shamanic and divinatory lore.</p><p>      </p>